Bairn Quotes

#1. Iain?"
"Mmm?"
"If the bairn is a lass, I'd like to name her after our mothers - Mara Elesaid."
"'Tis a bonnie name. And if 'tis a laddie?"
"Then we shall name him after his father."
"Och, well, 'tis a grand idea. And what name would that be?"
"You daftie!

Pamela Clare

#2. She took me to a mall yesterday"' Lachlain sounded as if he'd just stifled a shudder. "And she pointed to a boy and said, 'I think I want one.' So naturally, I start thinking, Where can I get a wee mortal? But she meant a bairn - our bairn.

Kresley Cole

#3. Ah sortay jist laugh whin some cats say that racism's an English thing and we're aw Jock Tamson's bairn up here ... it's likesay pure shite man, gadges talkin through their erses.

Irvine Welsh

#4. Soldiers manage by dividing themselves. They're one man in the killing, another at home, and the man that dandles his bairn on his knee has nothing to do wi' the man who crushed his enemy's throat with his boot, so he tells himself, sometimes successfully.

Diana Gabaldon

#5. You take care of my bairn."

He blinks. "I beg your pardon?"

"My ornithopter.

Elizabeth May

#6. For there's a part of me would like no better than to take you and the bairn and go far away, to spend the rest of my life working the fields and the beasts, to come in in the evenings and lie beside ye, quiet through the night.

Diana Gabaldon

#7. They say it's a wise bairn that kens its father, but I dinna think there's much doubt who yours is, lass. Ye might have had the lang nebbit and red locks from anyone, but ye didna get the stubbornness from any man but Jamie Fraser.

Diana Gabaldon

#8. What's the point of anything else but the truth?

Laurann Dohner

#9. Reality so often fails when it comes to small, satisfying details, she thought.

Terry Pratchett

#10. There's no point in fighting the tide. It ebbs. It flows. You ride it.

Karen Marie Moning

#11. Men in high heels? That's a prosthesis. But I sympathise. Women have these giant heels. They get taller and taller. The men need help. But a man in heels is ridiculous.

Christian Louboutin

#12. If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Pele

#13. They sent me the script and I thought that there was something very appealing and funny about it. Also, I was familiar with Mike Myers' work in Saturday Night Live, but I did not know the extent to which he would make this creation.

Michael York

#14. There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
If only the dead could find out when
To come back, and be forgiven.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#15. The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

Jimmy Page

#16. Bubby gently grabs me around the waist and pulls me to the ground.
"Touchdown," he whispers.

Gwendolyn Heasley